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Ultimate Santana

by: Santana

Release Date October 16, 2007
This is a wonderful of Santana's best songs. They are all different and fun to listen to. Great for playing at parties or just jamming in your car on the way to work or on a trip.

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The Best of Santana

by: Santana

Release Date March 31, 1998
carlos santana is the king of latin rock and has been for 40 years now and this is his best,leaning heavely on his early years (as it should) you get all his best tracks from black magic woman to the searing souls sacrifice. this is great rock from start to finish,it does have a few great tracks missing like Toussaint L'Overture and Guajira but these can be found on vol 2. so if your looking for some santana this is what your looking for.highly reccomended

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Supernatural

by: Santana

Release Date June 15, 1999
First off, Supernatural is not *just* a Santana record. It's more of a mix between Santana, his band, his collaborators and sometimes the producers. It's really a great sounding record all around, and despite it's mainstream trappings, I found pretty much all the songs good (not awesome or great, mind you). I'll tackle the album in it's two different faces: The more traditional (though this one is far from the traditional Latin music it seems) songs (give or take), or the less traditional, latin-pop songs.

Santana and his band of percussion instruments, horns, keyboards, the works are probably the best, and Carlos Santana makes his guitar sing and never wastes a note. The very first note on (Da Le) Yaleo hits you like a refreshing ... Read More:

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Abraxas

by: Santana

Release Date March 31, 1998
Santana-Abraxas ****1/2

When some people think of the Gibson SG guitar they think of Angus Young of AC/DC or Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath or sometimes even Pete Townsend of The Who, and while all of those are great guitarists, None of them was able to make that baby cry like Carlos Santana was on the groups first two albums. Weaving his guitar lines through hit singles like their reading of the (original) Fleetwood Macs 'Black Magic Women' and 'Oye Como Va' for the mainstream to hear that the guitar could be played more than just one way....with passion.

Passion is what fueled Abraxas, the passion to make a better album than their first. This certainly did become a bigger album, and even to this day is the bands signature release, ... Read More:

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Santana

by: Santana

Release Date March 31, 1998
Santana *****

Fresh off the success of their stint at the historic Woodstock, Santana, the last of the San Francisco bands to emerge at the end of the 1960's recorded this, their fantastic self-titled debut album. Over the years Santana would have brilliance in his albums, much like Blues For Salvador which would be amazing had it not been for the production, or Supernatural which jump started his career again but was a lack luster album. Well this was not the case with the first four Santana albums, especially this one, as it is truly the groups best.

Featuring the talented Gregg Rolie on the keys/organ and on most of the vocals. Many can take or leave his vocals and lyrics while I love them. 'Shades Of Time' can be pretentious at times, ... Read More:

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Multi-Dimensional Warrior

by: Santana

Release Date September 30, 2008
Santana *****

Fresh off the success of their stint at the historic Woodstock, Santana, the last of the San Francisco bands to emerge at the end of the 1960's recorded this, their fantastic self-titled debut album. Over the years Santana would have brilliance in his albums, much like Blues For Salvador which would be amazing had it not been for the production, or Supernatural which jump started his career again but was a lack luster album. Well this was not the case with the first four Santana albums, especially this one, as it is truly the groups best.

Featuring the talented Gregg Rolie on the keys/organ and on most of the vocals. Many can take or leave his vocals and lyrics while I love them. 'Shades Of Time' can be pretentious at times, ... Read More:

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Santana III

by: Santana

Release Date March 31, 1998
Santana's third album is pretty fantastic. Let me take that back- *consistently* fantastic. I really had no problem with any of the songs. I didn't think any of them were a few minutes overlong, and I certainly didn't think any of the tracks were filler-ish. After the album had ended, I felt like I had just gone through the biggest roller coaster ride of my life (and I'm afraid of roller coasters!)

Compared to Abraxas and Caravanserai, the latin percussion beats that made Santana so legendary and famous are *extremely* loud, heavy and nonstop on their third album. I wasn't expecting to hear an album with so much energy and a nonstop partying atmosphere but that's exactly what the album is. This is totally a hard rock/jam rock album with the volume ... Read More:

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Moonflower

by: Santana

Release Date September 30, 2003
I'm so happy so many young folks have discovered Carlos. So much of today's pop music is simplistic with a particular void in great guitarists. Where is the next Clapton, Stevie Ray, Carlos,, Duane Allman? The answer is: there are none! If folks want to listen to a great guitarist they have to listen to artists who started in the 60s and 70s.

The great song "She's Not There" is done in a couple of versions on this album. Carlos absolutely OWNS this song. There's lots of other great songs too.

The dealer got this to me quickly and without issue.

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Caravanserai

by: Santana

Release Date September 30, 2003
Jazz ideas had already been creeping into Santana's music on tracks like "Incident at Neshabur" and "Toussaint L'Overture", but Caravanserai boldly moved deep into jazz-rock territory. The upbeat and catchy Latin rock of the band's first 3 albums was replaced by a more meditative, abstract and instrumentally-focused style influenced by Miles Davis's early electric bands and Chick Corea's Return to Forever.

Most of the band's original members are still here (Gregg Rolie, Mike Shrieve, Chepito Areas) but their roles have changed dramatically. Mike Shrieve suddenly steps up in the compositional department and his drumming really improves. Check out his Elvin Jones-isms on "Waves Within". Gregg Rolie sticks to keyboards (lots of electric piano) and the remaining vocals are ... Read More:

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Best Instrumentals (Sony)

by: Santana

Release Date December 25, 2000
This is Santana at his finest. My favorite, arguably, is "Treat" with a great mixture of fast and slow tempos, piano and guitar, bongos and a salsa rhythm that will slap you in the face if your volume dial and speakers will allow it. Afterwards just explodes right into "Blues For Salvador" which is just icing on the cake. I wish they would've put a few more songs from the album Zebop onto this collection, namely "American Gypsy" which is another great song that doesn't get the attention it deserves as well as "Tales of Kilimanjaro". All I can say is WOW!